Oxhey

Oxhey
Hertfordshire
Location
Grid reference:	TQ125955
Location:	51°38’49"N, 0°22’32"W
Data
Postcode:	WD19
Local Government
Council:	Three Rivers
Parliamentary constituency:	South West Hertfordshire

Oxhey is town with a group of daughter villages congregated as a suburb south of Watford in Hertfordshire.

Oxhey was once a small village, south of Watford and west of Bushey, on the south side of the River Colne. It grew from the middle of the 19th century with the coming of the London and Birmingham Railway, which was built as far as Boxmoor in 1837. Oxhey was developed to house railway workers. The line was completed to Birmingham in 1838.

Since then, new suburbs and villages have grown. The original Oxhey is known as Oxhey Village and is the area around Bushey station and between Pinner Road and London Road, the closest to Watford, from which it is separated by the river and the railway lines, the latter carried over the valley and the road high up on viaducts, giving the area around the local name "Watford Arches".

'Daughter' villages

The wider locations which comprise the modern Oxhey area are:

• Oxhey Hall (the area along Hampermill Lane towards Moor Park);
• South Oxhey, which was built by the London County Council to move Londoners out of the congested slums into cheap housing in Hertfordshire;
• Carpenders Park, a twin to South Oxhey, lying beside it across the railway line.

Parish church

Oxhey's parish church is St Matthew's, a Grade II listed building dating from 1880 in Gothic Revival style with some elements of early Art Nouveau decoration. The church also features a Karl Parsons window in the Lady Chapel.

Oxhey Grange

Oxhey Grange on Oxhey Lane is a grand house built in 1876 under the supervision of William Young, Architect. It is in the High Victorian Gothic style and is now Grade II listed.

Sport

• Football: Oxhey Jets FC, who play at the Boundary Stadium.

References

Watford Arches